The conservative majority Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1970s ruling that gave Americans the constitutional right to have an abortion. 🧵
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Josh Hawley admits it: the GOP doesn't care if the public opposes the reactionary changes it is implementing.
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What's more, he says, it's *good* if Democrats leave red states as a result of these changes. That only helps the GOP in the electoral college.
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Hawley: Abortion Ruling Will Force People To Move, Giving GOP Electoral College Boost
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Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) said earlier today that he’d push for the state to ban all abortions past 15 weeks — a significant curtailment on abortion rights in a state that currently limits them to 25 weeks.
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AG Garland announced that the Justice Department will work with federal agencies that “seek to use their lawful authorities to protect and preserve access to reproductive care.”
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🚨Abortion is now completely outlawed in the state of Missouri, according to local reports and a tweet from Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt.
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BREAKING Following the SCOTUS ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, Missouri has just become the first in the country to effectively end abortion with our AG opinion signed moments ago. This is a monumental day for the sanctity of life.
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The United Nations issued a statement shortly after Roe’s demise, reaffirming its commitment to “ensure that the rights of women and girls are fully observed and enjoyed worldwide.”
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Thomas Calls For SCOTUS To ‘Reconsider’ Rights To Same-Sex Marriage, Contraception talkingpointsmemo.com/news/thomas-ro
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In other words: rights like same-sex marriage, privacy in same-sex relationships and access to contraception are next on the chopping block.
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“The Court’s precedents about bodily autonomy, sexual and familial relations, and procreation are all interwoven—all part of the fabric of our constitutional law, and because that is so, of our lives,” they write.
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Despite (some) of the conservative justices’ protestations, Breyer, Sotomayor and Kagan dismiss the notion that the death of Roe won’t precede the death of other privacy rights, many of which flow from the same parts of the Constitution.
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Justices Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor wrote an unusual joint dissent, in which they devote pages to alerting readers to the pandora’s box opened by the conservative majority officially overturning abortion rights.
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“No executive action from the president can do that,” Biden said.
The President urged people to vote for legislators who could make it happen, since there’s virtually no chance of such a law passing in this current Congress.
“This fall, Roe is on the ballot,” Biden said.
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Though he floated the idea of using executive action to protect abortion access earlier this month, Biden made it clear in his speech right now that he thinks it’s on Congress to fix this and “restore the protections of Roe v. Wade as law.”
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“Most threatening of all, no language in today’s decision stops the Federal Government from prohibiting abortions nationwide, once again from the moment of conception and without exceptions for rape or incest,” the dissenting justices wrote.
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Roberts Tries To Wash Hands Of Overturning Roe While Joining Majority Judgment talkingpointsmemo.com/news/john-robe via
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We still don't know what the leaker hoped to achieve, but Alito changed next to nothing from his draft. talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/alit
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This decision is further proof that while Roberts is Chief in name, he has no control over his Court's right wing. Spends his concurrence bemoaning that they didn't just stop at getting rid of the viability line instead of the "dramatic" and "unnecessary" overturning of Roe
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Roberts Tries To Wash Hands Of Overturning Roe While Joining Majority Judgment talkingpointsmemo.com/news/john-robe
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Rep. AOC told CNN that not only does she think Democrats ought to consider adding more seats to the high court, but also “we need to acknowledge that the Supreme Court of the United States has very few checks and balances.”
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Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) put out a statement outlining her ongoing plans to fight the 1931 abortion ban that has been on the books but has been unenforcible in the state ever since Roe was decided in 1973 – until now.
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“I trusted Justice Gorsuch and Justice Kavanaugh when they testified under oath that they also believed Roe v. Wade was settled legal precedent and I am alarmed they chose to reject the stability the ruling has provided for two generations of Americans.” — Manchin, shocked.
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Justice Brett Kavanaugh doesn’t seem to be on board with anti-abortion Republicans’ push to bar people from going to another state to obtain an abortion:
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A major if small ray of hope in Kavanaugh's concurrence: "May a State bar a resident of that State from traveling to another State to obtain an abortion? In my view, the answer is no based on the constitutional right to interstate travel." This will be the next abortion frontier
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“This cruel ruling is outrageous and heart-wrenching. But make no mistake: the rights of women and all Americans are on the ballot this November,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said, per CNN.
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PELOSI: “This cruel ruling is outrageous and heart-wrenching. But make no mistake: the rights of women and all Americans are on the ballot this November.”
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A big red flag: Justice Clarence Thomas’ solo concurring opinion argues that the court should revisit landmark cases that legalized same-sex marriage and access to contraception:
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13 states have laws on the books that automatically go into effect and will ban abortion within 30 days now that SCOTUS has overturned Roe:
Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming.
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The ruling was 6-3, with Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett and Chief Justice John Roberts voting yes and all three liberal justices — Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Stephen Breyer — dissenting.
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Join and as they reflect on and discuss the SCOTUS decision to overturn Roe,
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Dissenting Liberals Jump Up And Down To Alert Readers To The Floodgates Opened By Overturning Roe talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dissentin
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